Furious residents packing city-council meetings have become a familiar scene as proposals for data centers spark backlash in towns across America. But in Gilroy, Calif., known as the world’s garlic capital, there’s a twist: The $2 billion facility that residents are railing against is already being built.
“Many if not most residents first learned about this project after construction had already begun,” Coleen Crew, an elementary-school teacher, told the council at a recent meeting.
There were no public meetings or votes before a lone city staffer gave Amazon the green light last July to build a 438,500-square-foot data center on 56 acres of farmland 30 miles south of San Jose.
There’s a solvent you can pick up at a hardware store called toluene. If styrofoam is mixed in it makes a sticky, yet pourable goo.
Do keep it away from ignition sources, the mix is extremely difficult to extinguish.
plain gasoline works well with styrofoam too. Add pieces until they kinda stop instantly dissolving and you have reached a very effective stopping point
It depends on what you want, if you want a product that will splash and spread, the Toluene is the solvent of choice.
Gasoline makes for a much thicker paste because it doesn’t completely dissolve the styrofoam.